Involuntary treatment orders (ITOs) represent coercive leverage for treatment adherence
against the will of individuals incapable of providing consent. ITOs have failed to …

Background Social marginalization and criminalization create health and safety risks for sex
workers and reduce their access to health promotion and prevention services compared to …

In mental health and psychiatric care, the use of involuntary psychiatric treatment for people
with mental disorders is still a central and contentious issue. The main objective of this …

Objectives Stigma towards persons with mental illness is widespread. Mindfulness may
protect against stigma by cultivating accepting attitudes, non-reactivity, and prosocial …

There are conflicting views about the benefits of community treatment orders (CTOs) for
people with mental illness. While there is a significant literature on the coercive nature of …

This paper presents findings from an interdisciplinary project undertaken in Victoria,
Australia, investigating the barriers and facilitators to supported decision-making (SDM) for …

Self-management is widely promoted in Western health care policies as a way to address
the impact of increasing rates of chronic conditions on health care systems. Mostly informed …

Objective: Community treatment orders (CTOs) refer to a variety of legal schemes that
require a person with a serious mental illness to follow a plan of treatment and supervision …

Background Case management is the established model for care provision in mental health
and is delivered within current care philosophies of person-centred and recovery-oriented …

When nurses work in environments that have overlapping medical, legal, institutional, social,
and therapeutic priorities, nursing care can become an effective tool in advancing the …